Primary Source Documents
America
About the Constitution
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/exhibits/index.php?item=constitution2
Selected documents
Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era,
you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents,
stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the
content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American
History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
This site provides many documents that
chronicle our history from Eric the Red to the present. Documents include the
journals of Columbus, a 1586 report on the colony at Roanoke and many more.
American Journeys
http://www.americanjourneys.org/
Journeys contains more than 17,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of
North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to
the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
The American Memory
Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National
Digital Library Program, are over 50 multimedia collections of digitized
documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the
Library's Americana collections. Extremely well organized and
informative.
Also
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html
Archiving Early America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
This is a fun site to browse, but to go to the source, click on the listing
on the left.
The Avalon Project at the
Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/major.htm
This is an extensive well researched site containing documents of law,
history, and diplomacy. Documents are arranged from pre-18th century through
the 20th century. Specific documents may be searched.
Conversations with History - Online Learning
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/CSW/
This site features interviews
with distinguished men and women from all over the world who talk about
their lives and their work.
Documents Relating to
American Foreign Policy: The Cold War
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm
This is a collection of sites relating to the Cold War that include primary
source materials.
Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp
The national Endowment for the Humanities
maintains maintains this site with links to best history, language arts, and
social science sites. Primary sources, online lesson plans, and other
digital learn materials.
Eyewitness - History
Through The Eyes of Those Who Lived It"
http://www.ibiscom.com/index.html
This site illuminates the past through personal narratives and other
first-hand sources.
From Revolution to Reconstruction
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/
Documents dating back to 1400.
Government Views
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/GOVPUBS.html
The City College of New York became a Federal documents depository in 1884.
There are links and information to a multitude of various subjects.
National Archives and Records Administration Home Page
http://www.archives.gov/
Be sure to see the
Exhibit Hall which includes American Originals such as the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America,
and the Bill of Rights, World War II Posters and more. Other areas to check out are: Research Room, Digital
Classroom, and Archives and Preservation.
Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
One hundred milestone documents in American history have been
compiled by the National Archives. These are being released three per week
on the website. There is background information on each document, a
transcription and then a thumbnail of each document
enlarges for full screen projection. There is a high quality pdf format of
each document for printing. This is an American history teacher's
gold mine of documents.
University of Oklahoma College of Law: A chronology of US Historical Documents
Access is provided to documents from the pre-colonial period through the present.
Top
World
History Sources
Best of History Web Sites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/GeneralResources.shtml
Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable
access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of
categories. This page contains general resources. Click
on the period of history you need.
Lots of primary sources.
LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html
This site has a great number of materials
translated into English.
A. P. European History Web Links Page
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/APEuro_Main_Weblinks_Page.htm
Click on the era you are interested in for
information and primary source materials.
EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/index.html
The links connect to Western European
historical documents.
Women in World History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/wwhprimary.php
Browse more than 200 primary sources by
region, use the search tool or search by region.
World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
International primary documents have been
collected by volunteers of the World War I Military History List.
World War II Primary Source Documents
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/
Check the "Read This" page to understand how
the materials were collected.
Last
updated: 03.15.2007
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